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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1956-12-21, Page 4r . nit xposrrQIt, SEAFOR.TJ ;,'C2Nr., DEC. 21, 1956 S DEUCACIES ADD TOUCH 'GAIETY OF FESTIVE SEASON A light touch to the traditionally ogertaden Christmas table is the Muggestion of one of Canada's best Jkown, chefs. "Hot mince meat tartlets and turnovers, and Christmas cookies aro a welcome and festive addi- tion to 'the Christmas table' says E. Manfred Roebling, chef of "Alouette Rooni" in Montreal's Windsor Station. "The ingredients are readily available to most housewives, the preparation and baking are rela- tively simple, and the results well worthwhile. The Christmas ' cook- ies, cut in the shape of stars, snow- men and Yule trees, are a color- ful addition to the Christmas meal, and will particularly delight the children," he said. Roebling, whose special preserve is Montreal's famed "Alouette Room," has served as chef at the world renowned Chateau Frontenac at Quebec City for more than 15 years, and at the Palliser Hotel in Calgary, Chateau Lake Louise in the Rockies and the Empress Ho- tel at Victoria, B.C. Roebling's recipe for hot mince zneat tartlets and turnovers, as prepared and served in the "Alou- ette Room": "First, we must prepare the dough. For this we need • two pounds of lard, three and a half pounds of flour. and one pint of ice water. Blend the flour and lard by rubbing between the palms until properly mixed. Then add ice water. holding back a cupful, 11 the dough is not too thin add the rest of the water, but do not ,#mead, just mix lightly. fluffy pie dough should be handled as little as possible. Before rolling the dough out• place it in the re- frigerator for a short time. This dough is sufficient for about one and a hall dozen tartlets and about the same number of turnovers. "Now for the tartlets and turn- overs. Roll the pie dough a little larger than the tartlet moulds. Dust the moulds with flour and lay out with the dough, overlapping the edges of the moulds just a lit- tle. Fill with your favourite mince meat. pour half a teaspoon of rum over the mince meat. then cover the whole with the pie .dough. pressing the edges well together. Bake for 15 to. 20 minutes at 375 degrees F. "For the turnovers, roll out the pie paste and cut in square or oval shapes, put a spoonful of mince meat a little' off center, wet the edges of the paste with water, fold paste together, and pinch the bor- ders so the filling will not run out. Perforate the top with a fork to let the steam escape. Bake for 15 minutes at 375 degrees F. "Christmas cookies are a spe- cial treat, and are simple to pre- pare. We need one and a half pounds of' flour, one pound of but- ter, 10 ounces of sugar, four ounc- es of ground sweet almonds, two eggs, one half teaspoon of lemon rind grated and a pinch of salt. "Mix the butter and sugar until foamy, add the almonds and then the eggs (one at a tiine) and then add the grated lemon rind and salt. Fold in the flour. Roll the dough to about one-eighth of an inch thickness and cut in fancy shapes. Place on flour dusted cookie sheet and bake for 10 min- utes at 375 degrees F. "Decorate the cookies with royal icing of different colors—white of egg mixed with icing sugar. "The above recipe yields about five dozen cookies sufficient for Christmas and New Year's get-to- gethers," Chef Roebling said. Isn't Christmas a time to re - 1 member? Let us not forget the men who bring so much of the Christmas season to our doors. come rain or snow or dark of night. A steaming mug of spiced apple juice, a gaily tied box of your home -baked cookies, a bag of shiny red apples, or a bit of Christmas cake wrapped in alum- inum foil will speed your mailman on his rounds, Naval Officer: "Have you ever been in naval service before?" Recruit: "Yes.'sir. I was in the submarine service until they ask- ed me to quit." Officer: "Asked you to quit? Why?" Recruit: "Well, you see, sir, I had always been used to sleeping with the windows open" •„, ., i «yi�9v -iT,9.R S 9 '9. 9 9 9 9 f9 9X9 (r.„4.•mt rir,4 rt,aT. 'Y • 'Si Tr, AVOID . . WASH PA WOR'IE A Beatty Automatic Clothes Dryer eliminates wet weather wash worries. No matter whether rain, snow or sleet, your washing comes out dry, ready to iron. Automatic Beatty DRYER Reg. $299.50 • Pre -Christmas Special. 269 DENNIS ELECTRIC Phone 467 Au..METAL with CHROMIUM Legs Seaforth eat F) e.1,ti - wi r15 rjt ;rli Xr1 K1t r1i '- t w -1t ;1141, w1i e" .14 Reg. Price $1 7.95 41 The La Rev. J. H. James, of St. Thomas' Anglican Church, Seaforth, dis- cussed the position of the Chris- tian layman in the world crisis with members of the Seaforth Lions Club recently. He said: "The events of the past few months have shaken most of us out of our varying degrees of com- placency. Ten years after the First World War the world col- lapsed; that disaster was due largely to a world-wide economic depression which became a hot- house for the growth of power - crazy dictatorships. It is just over ten years since the close of World . War II and again the world is on the brink of disaster. The outlook is not a very happy .one. The only people who have much cause for happiness are the communists; they have come through the crisis victors on many fronts. Seeds of discontent have been sown among the major pow- ers of the Western Alliance; the political situation in Britain has been thrown into confusion; it seems likely that France will be having her perennial change of government; Commonwealth rela- tionships have been strained and the whole of Western Europe has been brought to the edge of econ- omic ruin; all in all, it has been a great day for commies. Disaster may have for the mom- ent been averted. but nothing has been settled, nor does it seem like- ly that anything will be settled for some time to come. The revolt in Hungary and its inevitable and ruthless suppres- sion has aroused the tempers. as well as the sympathies of people all across 'the world, and it would take very little to explode our world into some final madness. For there is little doubt in any- one's mind that with the equip- ment of destruction we have on hand. another outbreak of •war would in a very real sense be final. It would spell the end of civilization as we have known it. All across the world people have been choosing sides in this crisis, and the Pots have been calling the Kettles black, as if the ,question posed by the crisis was a .simple question of right and wrong; with whatever side we happen to be on being of course the right side. It seems to be in the very na- ture of the beast. for man to sim- plify all his problems until he finds a solution that will set his mind at rest. Impartial judgment in a time of crisis is 'gone with the wind'. Our. emotions, our tra- ditions, our prejudices, our likes and dislikes. overwhelm us and make our decisions form us. This has been going on as far back as history records, and ac- counts for most of the colossal blunders in man's attempts at pro- gress. ti? man an Tonight I make no apologies for suggesting that there can be no impartial judgment of life that does not take into account the great facts of religion and` par- ticularly of the Christian religion —the existence of God and the Omnipotence .of His Will. No man can look at anything im- partially because the very events he seeks to judge have helped to shape his judgment. To think impartially man must thinkttut- side the circle of circdmstance; he must think with God. Part, at least, of the meaning of the incar- nation, the birth of Christ at Beth- lehem, was God coming into the world, to make it possible for man in a new and unique way to think with Him. We should never be content with the answers that come to the ques- tion: "What do I think about it all?" For those answers will in- evitably be biased by the absorp- tion, of our lives in the environment we are seeking to judge. Never was it more urgent for men and women to become detach- ed thinkers; God-entred thinkers; humble and penitent seekers, af- ter truth. Most of us have been attempting to simplify the confusion in our world, which means in reality, at- tempting to justify our own view- point. We, therefore, tend in all probability to see this present world crisis as a struggle between communism and capitalism; be- tween East and West; between those who have and want to hang on to what they have, and those who have not, but now see for the first time an opportunity for get; between the democractic way of life and all other social and politi- cal forms. And as we have learn- ed all too recently, these divisions, these antipathies do bring crisis about, but they do not explain the crisis nbr can the pressures of crisis solve them. I. am convinced that today the Christian must go out with God in- to no-man's-land, between. the con- tenders, so to speak, for there alone lie the real answers. But just here may I suggest that a Christian today may adopt one of two attitudes: become detached from one of two convinctions—the conviction that the world is evil and that he, as a ehristian. has been saved out of the world. so that no matter which way, the bat- tle goes it is of little concern. This interpretation of the Christian thesis 'has . become in 'our genera- tion very widespread and is becom- ing ever more popular. And be- fore I go further. I must say that to me this position is untenable. Man cannot be saved out of the social organism of which he is a part. He must be saved within it. I cannot go out into no-man's- land with God and say: `Here, God, let us dig a nice safe fox - p hole,' while the world blows itself to bits. I cannot believe that Christ came to choose Christians out of the world, and that once chosen He would think for them. I must believe that He came to call disciples who would learn through Him to think with God; to think not as an Englishman, or a Russian or a Frenchman or'an Am- erican, but as a Child of God. The action of Britain and France in the Suez was prompted by ex- pediency. Whether it was right or wrong is a question which, at the moment, has little meaning. If we should presume to judge it by standards which have not as yet been accepted by mankind, it was definitely wrong. But, unfortun- ately, the world in which we live has hardly attempted to come to grips with moral issues at all. It has been following the easier but• disastrous road of expediency. All we can say is that at the moment it is expedient that we keep the people, who inhabit our world, alive long enough to come to grips with their problems. For the basic problem of our generation is to find a new way of life. The life of humanity up to this point in its history has largely been governed by power of one form or, another. For many cen- turies. by naked physical power, latterly by financial power, The destinies of men and women have been decided on the basis of some giving orders and the rest obey- ingthem. We have come to the end of this era of power. The confusion of our world results from a complete breakdown of power as the arbiter of human des- tiny. Our mad stampede to re- vive power -worship represents in the modern world its death -throes. What remains to be decided is whether or not it will pull civiliza- tion down with it, or,whether it will prove to be the birth -pangs of a new concept—a concept which came to birth on Christmas Day, but which has never been widely accepted. The difference 'between t h e Christian world and the non-Chris- tian world in the history of the past 2,000 years has been that in the Christian world the ravages of this disease of `power' have been mitigated at times by Christ -filled men and women and also that law and go'vern.ment have been unable to escape the impact of the Chris- tian ethic. This new concept which is today struggling to birth is the concept 'of partnership. and the contribution our British Commonwealth of Na- tions has made toman's history (the only one that will survive) will be found in the evolution of this partnership of nations, by no means perfect, but representing on the international level the only hope of the world. But this concept of partnership ,..',....,-4..,x..,4..,4..,`,.'-4-',.. _ ..,5,.... .,.,. ,s,..-4.. is a bas4c concept. It is the vision God has given man in Christ, and we of this generation are being called upon to work this concept out in the practical affairs of our world. For . our world has collaps- ed in size until'it is no bigger than our Province of Ontario of fifty years ago. And within this small rljeighborhood, neighborliness has become an imperative. What does a partnership mean? A partnership of any kind is en- tered ntered into for a common objective. Those who enter it become involv- ed in that objective, and in becom- ing involved in it they accept mu- tual responsibility and mutual 'lia- bility. Partners enter into -part- nership of their own free choice and within the partnership they remain free individuals. In Russia today we see the indi- vidual suppressed, and i,n Western democracy as we have known It, we see the individual defied. For all ; practical purpose, partnership in our world is a new concept which has been attempted here and there in a very limited way. We must learn to see it as the universal vision, given to the world by God Himself for the building up of His Kingdom here among men. And as far as the Christian is concerned, he must know that he has been made in Christ a part- ner with God in this adventure in partnership. He must witness to this partnership and use his life to create it as a reality between him- self and his fellowmen. This may sound all very simple and platitudinous. To me it is the challenge which we have inherited from the whole history of man, whose life until. now has been largely ruled by power. Freedom, as we have learned of late, has little meaning if it means freedom from one authority, only to be caught in the toil of another. Freedom can only continue to have meaning in our world if we are set free from power into partner- ship. And until we learn that partnership is God's idea, not man's, we will not get very far with it, and without His help we will get nowhere with it:. Original sin in man is in part, at least, the lust to dominate. Every man is power-razy; lives only to make his own ego not only the dominant of his own life. but of as many of the lives of those around him as possible. That is why all down through the years man has sought to create God in man's own image. A God of love is. still a new idea; Christianity is a vision yet to be 'seen; our struggle today is basic- ally a struggler between the con- cepts of power and partnership. To work this concept out in The life of our world will be a tre- mendous undertaking, but in dos- ing may I suggest that there are (Continued on Page 11) I ;41 uy i ;rr 5 ;arli tr') 4-t 4 4 ;rte i 4- u -1i w 5 e,:k• ,e1) ;rte i 4' 9- 9,, 9.. .h.. 9-9 K.. 9,. 9, 9•' 9.. 9.. 9«„n 9 9 n;..9 3P. egg Sipport Pian To Continue In '57 The Federal; Governx7ent will aantinue to support egg prices during 195? on the same basis as this year, the Canadian . Agricul- ture Department announced. The support price will be 38 cents a dozen for grade ,A large at storage points, unchanged from this year's and the 1955, support price. Due to decreased egg production, the agricultural ' prices support board is expected to incur no •loss on the egg support program this year. The loss last year was esti- mated at about $50,000 and the pre- vious year $700,000. Agriculture Minister Gardiner said in a statement the board would buy eggs if necessary at the support price plus carrying charges and thus enable commer- cial buyers and marketing organ- izations to maintain prices to pro- ducers in keeping with the support price. An agriculture offlcal estimated that the producer would receive between 30 and 32 cents a dozen for his grade A large eggs, de- pending on where in Canada he markets them. If bought from the commercial buyers. the board would pay the support price. Don't be caught in a panic when the Christmas holidays are in full swing and no one wants to run to the store. Sit clown now while you are calm and collected and make out a list of foods you may want for quick meals and im- promptu parties. Besides canned and frozen foods you might include some fancy biscuits and crackers. a jar or package of cream cheese, another of gherkins or pickled on- ions, some potato chips. a pound of coffee and an extra 'tin of evapor- ated milk. Put these away in a safe place—you are prepared—you can relax! ;Sx• yPra v+y; RAP A helicopter may hover like a bird, but when it comes down to roost on a roof it .weighs plenty, and sets up quite a strain. So engineers have devised a gim- mick. The whirly-bird lands on an aluminum raft floating in a shallow pool of water. The ma- chine's weight is spread over the area of the raft instead of just that covered by the landing gear. No doubt they figured out, too, how passengers can get "ashore". Certainly men who work with aluminum are mighty resourceful. 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